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2. Name of Instructor College Semester
Microfoundations of Financial Economics An Introduction to General Equilibrium Asset Pricing
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4. Grading … % of grade will be based on assignments.
There will be a midterm exam, worth …% of the final grade.
The final exam at the end of the semester is worth …%.
It is also possible to earn additional credits by writing a term paper.

5. Textbook
The course is mainly based on Lengwiler, Microfoundations of Financial Economics (Princeton University Press, 2004).
The book can be downloaded free of charge from

6. Please amend according to your needs.
Other reading
Supplementary texts to which we will occasionally refer include
Gollier, The Economics of Risk and Time (MIT Press)
Cochrane, Asset Pricing (Princeton University Press)
LeRoy and Werner, Principles of Financial Economics (Cambridge University Press)
Danthine and Donaldson, Intermediate Financial Theory (Prentice Hall)
Campbell, Lo, and MacKinlay, The Econometrics of Financial Markets, (Princeton University Press)
Campbell and Viceira, Strategic Asset Allocation (Oxford University Press)
Ljungqvist and Sargent, Recursive Macroeconomic Theory (MIT Press)
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7. Other reading
It is important that you also read original literature. For your convenience, a reader with a collection of articles for parallel study has been placed in the library.
Also, a list of references with many links to online versions of the various papers is available from